The WELL: pre.vue.134: The WELL, Kathy Sierra, Chris Locke and YOYOW

#23: Gail Williams (gail) Sun 15 Apr 07 18:32

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 18:32:00 PDT

#22: fluted pan (satyr) Sun 15 Apr 07 07:17

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 07:17:00 PDT

Hard to say. ;-) I (the logical side) have never been particularly out of touch with my intuitive side, which suggests that I'm not unusually polarized, for a guy, but I sometimes go off on tangents of the sort that are candy to my logical side, and then hit a wall with "BORING" scrawled across it in big red letters, so pursuing projects of that sort becomes a kind of negotiative process; there has to be something in it for my intuitive side or it won't buy in. For me, bargaining on the order of "let me concentrate now and we'll do something just for you later" doesn't work so well, but I can imagine that it might for others, and might take the form of indulging in feminine frills. [Read entire topic]

#21: Hmmm (timpflane) Sun 15 Apr 07 02:13

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 02:13:00 PDT

Thats a very logical sounding statement satyr.

How do you feel about it yourself?

<g> [Read entire topic]

#20: fluted pan (satyr) Fri 13 Apr 07 12:17

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:17:00 PDT

Responding to <14>...

Actually, I suspect the specialization of the cerebral hemispheres (logical vs. intuitive) is closely related to the "femme" style.

That specialization comes in degrees of polariztion. On average, womens brains are less polarized than mens, but that's only a statistical mean, and there's a lot of variation within each gender. What I'm suggesting is that "femme" is probably a manifestation of greater polarization in women, and maybe also compensation for the effect of an unusually polarized logical side threatening one's sense of oneself as feminine. [Read entire topic]

#19: Gail Williams (gail) Thu 12 Apr 07 10:37

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 10:37:00 PDT

Thanks. Check out what Jon Carroll wrote about The WELL, rules, blog codes of conduct and common sense:

<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2007/04/12/DDGTLOSCEK1.DTL>

Cute little aside:

"If you spend half an hour in an online forum and you're not sure which poster is the clueless one, probably it's you." [Read entire topic]

#18: fluted pan (satyr) Thu 12 Apr 07 09:31

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 09:31:00 PDT

Yes, the link to your blog is working again. [Read entire topic]

#17: Gail Williams (gail) Wed 11 Apr 07 10:06

Wed, 11 Apr 2007 10:06:00 PDT

All still working for me, but another option for that external page: http://tinyurl.com/yrqpx5

For entering the blog conference, if you are logged in, try the shortcut box: g blog

If you're reading on the outside, you can log in for that conversation from the Blog Conference description too: http://www.well.com/conf/blog/

I hope that solved the problem? [Read entire topic]

#16: fluted pan (satyr) Wed 11 Apr 07 09:47

Wed, 11 Apr 2007 09:47:00 PDT

I see that link isn't working now.

"Sorry, but the page you requested cannot be found." [Read entire topic]

#15: Gail Williams (gail) Tue 10 Apr 07 16:30

Tue, 10 Apr 2007 16:30:00 PDT

Meanwhile, this fracas has shifted to a debate about what to do. Or not to do.

Did you see Tim O'Reilly's draft cultural badges for blogs? Visually, that's blogs with rules -- they sport a sherriff's star -- vs. blogs without rules -- who put up a picture of explosives as an icon. It's more complex, but the images were rather alarming. I posted a response to his call for comments.

I then re-posted my thoughts in the <blog.> conference here nito the main conversation on this subject. A few minutes ago I reposted to my personal external blog too.

Here's that link (rather than reposting that whole thing here again.) <http://gailwilliams.wordpress.com/2007/04/10/civilty-codes-of-conduct-and-sustaining-community/> [Read entire topic]

#14: Gail Williams (gail) Tue 10 Apr 07 10:46

Tue, 10 Apr 2007 10:46:00 PDT

Of course. I'm not talking about internal intuitive sense or bio markers like estrogen levels. My suspicion has to do with having seen years of posts by people who are allergic to cheerleader or sugary coaching archetypes, versus other more somber or tough styles. In literary terms, there's a matter of voice.

Dislike of men for being too yuppie, too girly, too jock-like, etc etc also goes on when we evaluate experts and public figures. It's part of why people decide they "hate" a writer, expert or celebrity. The actual skills and qualities of the person may not have a thing to do with it. [Read entire topic]